SharePoint 2013 will include SkyDrive Pro

Together with Office 2013 Microsoft unveiled the beta version of SharePoint 2013. This is still an early version, and we won't review it so far (in particular, it's still no information about possible integration with Yammer). But one thing is this beta has already attracted great public interest - SkyDrive Pro. We have previously reported that SharePoint is being attacked by the army of file synchronization services called "Dropbox for Enterprise", and that SkyDrive's technology should help SharePoint to overcome these attacks. And so it happens, but as usual, Microsoft has added an element of chaos to this project. Why was it necessary to create a separate service called SkyDrive Pro? Why they just not added simple file sync functionality to SharePoint without inventing new titles? It's even more confusing as SkyDrive Pro won't replace the existing off-line client - SharePoint Workspace, but will be used along with it.

SkyDrive Pro also won't be connected with a conventional SkyDrive, and users will be using both services separately (eg, one for work, one for personal use).

SkyDrive Pro will be shipped with SharePoint Online in Office 365, as well as with the local version of SharePoint 2013. The second option will allow companies to create own SkyDrives behind the corporate firewall.

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